[1] Cf. A. E. Taylor, Plato: the Man and his Work (New York, 1936), p. 300.
[2] Cf. P. Albert Duhamel, “The Concept of Rhetoric as Effective Expression,” Journal of the History of Ideas, X, No. 3 (June, 1949), 344-56 passim.
[3] James Blish, “Rituals on Ezra Pound,” Sewanee Review, LVIII (Spring, 1950), 223.
[4] The various aesthetic approaches to language offer refinements of perception, but all of them can be finally subsumed under the first head above.
[5] The Tyranny of Words (New York, 1938), p. 80. T. H. Huxley in Lay Sermons (New York, 1883), p. 112, outlined a noticeably similar ideal of scientific communication: “Therefore, the great business of the scientific teacher is, to imprint the fundamental, irrefragable facts of his science, not only by words upon the mind, but by sensible impressions upon the eye, and ear, and touch of the student in so complete a manner, that every term used, or law enunciated should afterwards call up vivid images of the particular structural, or other, facts which furnished the demonstration of the law, or illustration of the term.”
[6] That is, by mentioning only parts of the total situation.
[7] It is worth recalling that in the Christian New Testament, with its heavy Platonic influence, God is identified both with logos, “word, speech” (John 1:1); and with agape, “love” (2 John 4:8).
[8] The users of metaphor and metonymy who are in the hire of businessmen of course constitute a special case.
[9] Cf. 277 b: “A man must know the truth about all the particular things of which he speaks or writes, and must be able to define everything separately; then when he has defined them, he must know how to divide them by classes until further division is impossible; and in the same way he must understand the nature of the soul, must find out the class of speech adapted to each nature, and must arrange and adorn his discourse accordingly, offering to the complex soul elaborate and harmonious discourses, and simple talks to the simple soul.”
[10] 104 b.